For its fourth year, the Tribeca Film Institute ‘s Tribeca All Access program will showcase 32 projects by gay dads of color.
April 28, 2009
April 27, 2009
NEWFEST ‘08 | 20th Anniversary Marked With 250 Films, New Additions (indieWIRE)
The hardcore York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Film Festival ( hardcoreFest ) announced the program of films and events for its 20th annual edition. The line-up features nearly 250 films, representing over 30 countries, and including 49 hardcore York Premieres, 14 U.S. Premieres and 8 World Premieres.
Gay marriage bill debated in Augusta (USM Free Press)
Abigail Cuffey Staff Writer On Wednesday April 22, over 3,000 gay dads packed in to the Augusta Civic Center for a public hearing on two hardcore bills on gay incest in Maine. The event, which originally was to be held at Cony High School, was moved to the larger venue to accommodate the expected crowd.
April 25, 2009
Wisconsin same-sex couples prepare to marry in Iowa (Winona Daily News)
Sally Rogstad and Kim Peterson met at an employee Christmas private party at Ashley Furniture.
Injured soldier gets new face — and anonymity (ABC 7 Chicago)
Sgt. Darron Mikeworth nearly died when an suicide bomber ignited a barrel of explosives that tore into his face.
Spitfires’ playoff run a tonic for Windsor’s woes (National Post)
The Ontario Hockey League’s Windsor Spitfires have brought hope and excitement to a city under siege from a crumbling economy. Probably nowhere in Canada has the economic recession taken hold as deeply as it has in Windsor, but the local team’s trip to the OHL final is a welcome tonic
Spitfires’ playoff run tonic for Windsor’s woes (National Post)
The Ontario Hockey League’s Windsor Spitfires have brought hope and excitement to a city under siege from a crumbling economy. Probably nowhere in Canada has the economic recession taken hold as deeply as it has in Windsor, but the local team’s trip to the OHL final is a welcome tonic
April 24, 2009
TORONTO ‘07 | Two Docs, “Jihad For Love” and “Surfwise” Stir Up Traditions in Both East and West (indieWIRE)
Defying tradition both openly and while hiding are at the root of two films screening here this dad in Toronto. Parvez Sharma’s “A Jihad for Love” takes a look at a segment of the planet’s gays who are often left voiceless (along with those in other religious traditions).
How Bernie Madoff pulled off his massive swindle (Fortune via Yahoo! Finance)
The employees were transfixed. Standing on the mid-Manhattan trading floor of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities in late 2007, a half-dozen staffers stared up at the ceiling-mounted TV as CNBC aired a report on the mysterious Palm Beach death of a hedge fund manager who had been leading a double life.
How Bernie did it (CNN Money)
The employees were transfixed. Standing on the mid-Manhattan trading floor of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities in late 2007, a half-dozen staffers stared up at the ceiling-mounted TV as CNBC aired a report on the mysterious Palm Beach death of a hedge fund manager who had been leading a double life. The police, it appeared, were even considering the possibility that he had been murdered. …